Finally! Really I am so sorry I let this one story wait for so long .. I am right now pretty busy with otherthings too and a littlebit depressed. This one chapter is not as long as I hoped, but from here the story will start getting more intense so be prepared. Always thank you for following and favouriting, I really do apreciate it. And please leave some feedback. Am I doing well on this story? And now please enjoy this chapter

This was all too surreal. Everything flashed by in seconds. I couldn't even proceed what was happening then and now I was already in the hospital. Why? Why did this happen. This wasn't supposed to happen! Yet I couldn't do anything either.

Today was like every other day. We were in school, Koro-Sensei taught us new stuff, and Karma was again making fun of our teacher. The usual routine.

"Before I forget it, I have a favor to ask you for" said Koro-Sensei just as the students were ready to leave. "To day I have prepared something special for you. That's why I want you guys to come here in the evening. Like I already announced yesterday."

Everybody exchanged gazes, sure Koro-Sensei was supposed to call them and ask them to decorate the class for Christmas and in that process they would spend a lot time together. Being with class E was fun and Christmas together with them would be the best.

They also wanted to know how much the redhead appreciated being surrounded by his classmates for a longer time than usual and see what kind of decorations he preferred, so that they could do things right for his birthday party.

What they didn't know was that their yellow octopus teacher had more things in mind. He was looking forward to that. "Sure we'll come" agreed Isogai with the class nodding. Karma didn't pay much attention to the favor, to be honest he had actually forgotten that Koro-Sensei asked them the day before. So in a sense it was good for the octopus to remind them.

His teacher looked closely at him. He noticed the paler skin and sweat dripping down, but knowing the redhead, he would deny that something was wrong. So for now he chose to ignore all of that, the evening can be used for that. They'll spend a lot of time together. "And please, it would be great if everyone came."

Karma knew what his teacher meant by that, after all the redhead chose most of the time to skip not only lessons but also other events that had nothing much to do with assassination. With an annoyed sigh he nodded assuring his teacher that he would come. Making his teacher happy.

Then his happy expression faded when his eyes fell on another student. The black haired girl that hated Karma so much, she wouldn't come to occasions held for him. Rin, who wanted to leave before Koro-Sensei could even think of it, felt his stare. Not only did she feel it, she was exasperated of it, of course he would get her to come. "Every student!" Koro-Sensei stressed the every in a more or less dramatic way and waited for an answer. Rin sighed, arguing with Koro-Sensei wasn't a good idea, so she had no other option than to surrender, "Fine, I'll be there." Again the octopus was made happy.

With that cleared everyone left the classroom and went to their own homes.

Koro-Sensei watched with joy as his student went to their homes. He had always so much fun to teach them and spend time with them. The students always thought to be lucky to have him as their teacher, but that very same teacher thought that he was the lucky one. After being the world's best assassin and having killed thousands of people he got the chance not only to teach these children, but to be able to help them reach a bright future. He had never before treasured life let alone of any other one and here he is, caring so much for his students.

"I have got the best students ever." he mused a with genuine smile. He walked back to his desk. Hidden before everyone's eyes were his notes. Notes about juicy gossip, about what to do to pair his students up, after all he had a brand new pair and wanted to help them. In his desk was other than his notes a camera. A special one he bought some time ago, with all of his saved money (which was pretty painful) but nevertheless it will be worth the money.

Everything was fine then. The day went by and sun was already setting. At that time the students left their homes to go to their classroom.

"I am leaving" said Nagisa while putting on his jacket. Usually he would have to argue with his mother to make her agree to let him go so late, but since the parent-teacher-interview incident things changed, for the better. "Please be careful" replied his mother while smiling. "I will" Nagisa smiled back, it was so unusual to be able to genuinely smile at his mother and really refreshing. "Have fun." wished his mother, waving him a good bye.

Once he was outside Nagisa choose to go to Karma first. He knew that his redheaded friend would still be at his mansion, probably playing his games. Whenever he played any kinds of games he forgot time. Besides he would have contacted Nagisa if he had already left. Either asking him to go together to school or just to prank him. So the bluenette was pretty sure to find him at his home.

The train station wasn't far away, he reached it in less than ten minutes. To his luck the train he had to board, to get to Karma just arrived and entered quickly. It wasn't busy at all, at this hour of the day not many people would use the train. He took one of the seats in the back, sitting at the window.

The end of their school year is coming closer. Nagisa sighed. 'I wonder what we can do to save Koro-Sensei' he mused while watching out of the train's window. Sure he did his best to get his view across and even succeeded, but Nagisa had no idea how to save a super-human being, created by human themselves. He only had the wish to save his teacher , no matter what. But he smiled, now that all of Class E agreed to save him, they will definitely be able to find a way. As long as they work together they'll do anything.

He was pulled out of his thoughts when his phone buzzed. A message. When unlocking the screen Rin's name displayed. Which surprised him. Rin actually never really cared to contact anyone of them, even though she had everybody's number and the way around. Not willingly given to them, but what could someone do against a persistent teacher like Koro-Sensei? He read the message.

I am a little late, where are you?

Nagisa wondered why she contacted him out of all, but nevertheless he answered.

In the train. I'll pick up Karma and come to the class.

It didn't take her long to reply and Nagisa was already prepared for teasing.

Aw, that's so sweet of you.

Nagisa was glad there wasn't more to it, but the next message surprised him once again.

I'll come with you guys.

Before he could ask anything Rin sent one more message.

Some of the other idiots are gathered up here to go together since it is too 'dark' and 'dangerous' for young girls to go on there own.

The blue head started to chuckle. Sure the one she was specifically talking about was Maehara. That womanizer. And also some of the other girls of the class had to be there too, after all the brown haired boy wouldn't dare stating something like this when it was only Rin. Maehara knew pretty well that Rin hates it if people treat her like a weak little girl, after some harsh experience. Rin doesn't like this part of his personality and would always be dissing him for that, which would shut him up.

Karma on the other hand had got one more thing to tease her with. They could all be so childish, but that were things that made Class 3E fun and enjoyable. It was hard to believe that all of this would end in March.

We will hurry up

The train stopped and Nagisa exited, since he came to Karma's stop. From here it was only a walk of some minutes to reach his mansion. The bluenette shove his hands in his jacket's pocket and sprinted down ways. It was pretty cold, maybe snow could fall soon.

The wind hit painful against his face making him pull up his collar a little to get some protection. So that he won't freeze too much Nagisa took on his jacket's hoodie. It did help a little bit.

While doing so he reached Karma's mansion without realizing it. He hurried through the gates and to the front door not wasting any time to ring. (He hated the bell, since pushing once it kept going with a loud, annoying ding-dong pretty extended for maybe three to four minutes and when you think that it's over it would start again, until either more than ten minutes past or from the inside someone responded)

Fortunately Karma answered quickly.

"Yes?"

"Karma it's me, we have to go to class."

Nagisa heard a groan on the other side. Karma really didn't want to attend at all.

"Come on Karma, Koro-Sensei asked us to come, after all. Don't skip." Karma was silent for a short while, maybe he was thinking the idea through and trying to get an excuse for not attending. Then he finally submitted.

"Okay fine. I am coming boss."

Nagisa rolled his eyes, Karma will never change, though Nagisa hoped for him to hurry up. The cold weather is nearly killing him.

Luckily, Karma came in a few minutes. He had a large, dark gray colored fur coat on. With small little belts, two at each sides. It didn't have buttons. There were small metals in d-forms able to branch into each other to close it. The sleeves carried buttons as decoration on them. An amazing coat and the blue haired male recognized it immediately. It was the very same coat he gave him at the first Christmas after they became friends. It was the very first present he gave to his redheaded friend and the very same item he designed together with his father. And the very first gift Karma had ever received.

Nagisa stayed staring at him. He didn't expected Karma to have it. To keep it. Specially after they drifted apart, but here he is wearing that coat. Karma noticed his friends surprised face and grinned widely.

"Am I really that good looking?" he teased. Effective, making the smaller one blush and avert his eyes. "That's not it" he replied, "I am just surprised that you still have this coat." Karma stepped out, closing the door behind him and walking past Nagisa. In that short moment he whispered to him.

"How could I not keep something my dear friend gave me." He smiled genuinely. And again Nagisa's pale face reddened madly. Only Karma could make him lose his cool like that. Usually the little assassin was perfect at hiding his feelings. Hiding them behind his smile that looked so nice and warm, it could fool anyone. But when it came to Karma he could make him lose this false smile in seconds.

"Come on, Nagisa!" interrupted Karma his trains of thoughts. He waited for Nagisa at the gate.

"Wait, I am coming!"

Meanwhile:

Rin kept impatiently checking the time. It was around ten minutes ago that she had contacted Nagisa. Latter one telling her that he'd hurry, but didn't arrive yet. The black haired girl wanted to get to school as fast as possible.

Shortly before she had some things to do and when being on her way home she met with some of her classmates, but wasn't really pleased to see them though. Especially the womanizer, he was so annoying. Ah and besides they ruined her plans of skipping the event, so one more reason she wasn't pleased at all.

Now she was there with Okano, Kayano, Okuda and Yada on one side and Isogai, Terasaka and Maehara on the other. Besides sun was down since a long time and to be honest it really was dangerous after all. They should have been at school already, so Rin was surprised to see all of them there. She didn't bother to ask either.

Ritsu informed them that other than her group and Karma and Nagisa everyone was at class and waiting for them to come. So they decided to wait for the duo, so that they could go together. They weren't far from Karma's mansion, it shouldn't take them too long to get there. Just as the black haired assassin started to get angry at them, they finally showed up. Apologizing for being late.

"Why are you guys still here?" asked Karma, seemingly surprised to see the group. "Waiting for idiots" replied Rin now ready to go a head. The redhead was ready to reply, but when he opened his mouth Nagisa spoke up: "Well, we should get to school as fast as possible." He was quite nervous when saying that, so he might just wanted to avoid any arguments, his classmates nodded with same nervousness.

"I know a short cut from here. We can take that instead of waiting for the train" suggested Maehara pointing into a small alleyway. True the train would take at least more than fifteen minutes making them far later than they already were, besides get moving is much better than just standing out in the cold.

No one objected when Maehara started to lead the way. Now going through it, the alleyway wasn't as small as it seemed to be. The houses here look pretty down-and-out, really old. And at that time pretty scary. Every here and there were stalls, looking like being left behind. The question as of why people don't take this shortcut wasn't even on their minds when going through themselves. This place could be dangerous.

"Actually underage people aren't allowed to go here" said Karma. The group looked at Maehara expecting an explanation of him how he knew this shortcut, after all the way he led them points to the fact that he went trough this alley many times. "You don't need to know" was his only reply.

The girls where partly scared, Nagisa a little bit too, Isogai and Karma pretty cautious. Rin wasn't scared. A situation like this couldn't scare an pro assassin, but she too was very cautious. Places like this don't just look dangerous, they mostly were it. There were suddenly some strange looking passengers coming toward them.

Just passenger who they seemingly ignored, yet watched carefully. They didn't seem to be up to something. Just as they went past the students, one of them had the guts to grab Okuda's arm. Making her flinch a little. The other men, two of them, surrounded the girls. They were big and muscular.

"Hey, cuties. What are ya doing this late?" asked the one that grabbed the chemist. Another one added: "Let's have fun, aren't these boys boring?" Disgusting. The usual cliche scenario. Old guys thinking they were cool and can harass girls. They were the lowest, Rin always thought that. It wasn't the first time something like this happened to her,but still it was annoying.

Three around, one of them had grabbed Okuda. Three more came from behind and another two were cornering Maehara and Isogai. To be honest it didn't really look like they only wanted to play around with the females, but rather mess around with all of them.

She walked to the guy that had Okuda and stopped in front of him making him look at her in question. So did her classmates. She herself was calm and not bothering to look at the man. Rather was she smiling. Arrogantly. Making the man confused.

"It's not a good idea..." she said. Leaving her sentence half finished. In seconds when the man was wondering what she wanted he felt a hard kick against the right side of his face. Really hard, knocking him out. For a girl, that kick as too strong, especially a middle school student. "... to challenge these girls."

He let go off of Okuda. That one scene made the others lose their attention at the students, just watching with shocked faces as one of their companions was knocked out that easily. Karma and his classmates on the other hand couldn't hold their grins and laughter. Assassin training was really helpful in situations like this.

Using the moment of distraction Karma was the first to attack the man standing behind him. He gave him one a hard punch, in the same spot where Rin had kicked the other man. Knowing that going for the right side of the face, directly on the cheek can knock someone out.

One of them attacked Nagisa, who could easily dodge and manage the man to trip over his feet and crushing in one of the many stalls. Hard with head on.

Maehara and Isogai who were cornered could dodge in a way so that their attacker crushed against each other, using this moment to knock them out as well.

Okano kicked one too, with her acrobatic skills not difficult and Kayano did the same. A hard kick into the neck. Resulting in most of the attacker on the floor.

Yet they forgot about the one standing behind the whole group. He grabbed a metal pipe rushing towards Karma, who didn't pay attention. Just like the whole day he felt dizzy and was a little unfocused.

Nagisa noticed the attacker. "Karma watch out!" Just in time the redhead turned around, rather tripped in that process, and fell to the ground barely missed by the pipe. The attacker groaned, but still was ready to strike again. Now he was the one who didn't notice the small boy with blue hair approaching him. When he did, Nagisa was too close and before he knew the boy clapped.

The man was totally taken by the action. Feeling his body go numb and he himself fell to the ground. Unconscious.

Rin sighed in annoyance, they had lost a lot of time, what a great shortcut. With her hands in her jeans' pocket she went ahead. "Let's go. It's already late." The others followed suit, Nagisa helping Karma back to his feet. "That was unusual for you to be so careless, Karma" commented the bluenette, smiling.

"Yeah, just forget it" replied Karma, not wanting to get to this topic. Just in that moment from the corner of his eye he saw something moving. Or rather said, someone moving. Someone who shouldn't have been able to.

That person took something out and Karma knew in that moment what he was up to. Making him quickly rush to his feet.

Nagisa now too saw what Karma had seen, but too late. Things happened so fast he couldn't comprehend. A man before them, taking out some metal, dangerous and deadly. An ear-piercing sound. The redhead before him.

"I don't want that octopus to..." the sound of a shot interrupted Rin. She turned around in shock. No one noticed their attacker to have a gun, neither did they see it coming. Nor did they expect the one that was clap-stunned by Nagisa to stand up again. Nothing at all.

When she turned around she heard Nagisa scream: "Karma!" alongside called redhead to fall to the ground, blood pouring down. Their classmates rushing to them. In addition to that, the shooter had even the guts to smile at the image before him.

In that moment she realized it. It was all planned. Disturbing them here in this alleyway, attacking them and now even going for the kill. Karma being shot. Yet that wasn't all. Not at all. Was this an assassination? Why did this happen?

That day Class 3 E had experienced a horrible moment and we finally understood in which what kind of role we had as students of the unkillable super-human.

We realized: Koro-Sensei wasn't the only target.